On 12-22 November, the IV BRICS International Festival
of Theatre Schools under the Russian BRICS Chairmanship will take place. . This is an innovative platform for promoting
cultural exchanges on Dramatic Arts between theatre schools of the five BRICS
countries.
Iosif Kobzon Institute
of Theatre Art organised the festival with the support of the Presidential
Grants Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and
ROSATOM State Corporation.
Due to the pandemic, this festival will combine the latest IT solutions to make online
productions with offline stage performances to present a single theatre
performance that will be streamed live.
Representatives of international theatre schoolsof
various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, students and masters will come
together to learn how to do acting in any director’s approaches and readings.
Students of the BRICS theatre schools will also prepare a joint performance in
the “Let's Play Together!” format.
The festival’s educational programme aims at uniting
the achievements of the world’s best theatre schools and will help students to learn
and explore various methods during workshops and joint international
productions with the participation of young performers from the BRICS
countries.
To mark the “Year of Memory and Glory”, the creative
part of the IV BRICS International Festival of Theatre Schools will be devoted to
the burning issue of “Uniting people from various countries in the fight
against war and violence.” The Festival will conclude with a production of
Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children”, which shows the protracted
war through the prism of the characters’ destinies, emotions and feelings.
“This year, honouring the 75th anniversary of Victory
in the Great Patriotic War and taking into account the decision of Russian
President Vladimir Putin to declare 2020 as the “Year of Memory and Glory”, the
traditional international festival performance will be about ordinary people
suffering the horrors of war. We hope that the spectators and guests of the Festival will like the new
format we have , enabling us to reach an even larger audience,” Dmitry Tomilin,
Festival Director, Rector of the Institute of Theatre Art, said.
“Despite all the challenges we have been facing this
year, we have managed to keep our unique festival going, develop a brand new
format and perfect our approaches to holding large-scale international events
using IT solutions. All our events will be streamed online, on social media and
will be covered by media, and the unusual combination of online and offline
interactions will be an unforgettable experience that will teach Festival
participants how to work with one another under
these rather unusual circumstances,” Mr Tomilin pointed out.